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Wednesday, 4 November 2026
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Silver
The words "silver" and "money" sound identical in at least 14 languages around the world.
Cosmos
The largest mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons.
This extinct volcano rises above the Martian surface to a height of about level. The diameter of the ...
Cosmos
The Solar System is located in the Milky Way.
Our galaxy ranks rather average, its diameter is 100 to 120 thousand light years. Perhaps a unique f ...
NASA
On May 12th, 2022, NASA’s Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Graphene
Graphene can be used in the biomedical field for diagnostic purposes.
It shows therapeutic potential as a drug carrier. It can also be used in tissue engineering because ...
Moon
The Moon is so far the only celestial body on which humans have landed.
The first successful landing on the Moon took place on July 20, 1969, at 21:17 CET. Shortly after la ...
Earth
The lithosphere is the outermost covering of the Earth.
It is made of tectonic plates that are constantly moving. Earthquakes may occur in zones where these ...
Cosmos
The largest crater in the Solar System is located on the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.
The crater has a diameter of 15.600 kilometers and was discovered on 7th August 2020. So far it has not been named.
Snow
There are various snow events of varying duration and intensity, such as snow flurries, snow showers, snow squalls, blowing snow, and blizzards.
Snow flurries are minor snowfalls that cause light dusting or no snow accumulation.During snow showe ...
Moon
There are many theories about the formation of the Moon, but the most probable is that in the early days of the Solar System, the proto-Earth collided with a celestial body the size of Mars, and this impact generated enough energy to throw enough material into Earth's orbit to form the Moon.